1. Heard Mr. Shashi Anugrah Narayan, Mr. Ramakant Sharma, learned Senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners and Mr. Prabhat Kumar Singh, learned Standing Counsel No. 21 for the State.

2. The petitioners seek quashing of the part of the order dated 3.7.2006 passed by respondent no. 2, the Collector, Patna in Land Acquisition Case No. 2 of 2002-03, by which the Collector while holding that the petitioner of the said case was entitled to get compensation alongwith statutory interest, had further directed that the said amount of compensation should be recovered from the personal pockets of these four petitioner Revenue Officials i.e. Revenue Karamchari, Circle Inspector, Circle Officer, Danapur and D.C.L.R., Danapur holding them responsible for fixation of rent of land in question and opening Jamabandi in the name of respondent no. 4 and thereby fraudulently giving the land to him.

3. The short facts of the case are that the Land Acquisition Case No. 2/2002-03 was initiated by the Additional Collector for acquisition of certain lands of Mauja Jalalpur and other Maujas for which notices were issued. The respondent no. 4 Nilya Nand Singh claimed compensation with resp